---
type: "Bill"
title: "Child Welfare"
description: "Child Welfare; Requiring the Department of Children and Families to establish performance metrics; requiring sheriffs providing certain services to adopt the child welfare practice model; requiring the department to establish an Office of Quality; adding responsibilities to the department of contracts regarding care for children in the child welfare system; requiring the Florida Institute for Child Welfare and the Florida State University College of Social Work to design and implement a specified curriculum, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 1326"
citation: "Florida SB 1326 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["social welfare", "motor vehicles", "insurance", "criminal procedure and corrections", "j", "executive branch", "judicial branch"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-152"
primary_sponsors: ["Simpson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-12-20"
last_action: "2020-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6369e40b-c3c5-45fe-bff0-af958b572fac"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1326/ByCategory"
source_hash: "8a560d936a802bdbe71c01c5dd5366796bb1bbd8714869cc4d774fa8ed23894b"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-fl"]
---

# Florida SB 1326 (2020) — Child Welfare

Child Welfare; Requiring the Department of Children and Families to establish performance metrics; requiring sheriffs providing certain services to adopt the child welfare practice model; requiring the department to establish an Office of Quality; adding responsibilities to the department of contracts regarding care for children in the child welfare system; requiring the Florida Institute for Child Welfare and the Florida State University College of Social Work to design and implement a specified curriculum, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-152.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S 1326 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1326/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1326 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1326/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1326 e1** (engrossed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1326/BillText/e1/HTML)
4. **S 1326 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1326/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Passage, Third Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **19–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Simpson — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-12-20** Filed `filing`
- **2020-01-08** Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-14** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-01-16** On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 01/21/20, 12:00 pm, 301 Senate Building
- **2020-01-21** Favorable by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-01-21** Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services
- **2020-01-23** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, 01/28/20, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2020-01-28** Subcommittee Recommendation: Favorable by Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
- **2020-01-28** Now in Appropriations
- **2020-02-17** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/20/20, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building --Temporarily Postponed
- **2020-02-24** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/27/20, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2020-02-27** CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 19 NAYS 0
- **2020-03-02** Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2020-03-02** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-03-03** CS by Appropriations read 1st time
- **2020-03-04** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/06/20
- **2020-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-06** Amendment(s) adopted (216532)
- **2020-03-06** Ordered engrossed
- **2020-03-06** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-09** CS passed as amended; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-09** In Messages
- **2020-03-09** Referred to Calendar `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-09** Received
- **2020-03-10** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/10/20
- **2020-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-10** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-11** CS passed; YEAS 117 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-11** Ordered enrolled
- **2020-06-16** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2020-06-30** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-07-01** Chapter No. 2020-152

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6369e40b-c3c5-45fe-bff0-af958b572fac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).